Roy Schestowitz

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1596.jpg    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 03:56:54

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1246.jpg    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 03:56:59

• Bloated and Vomitous gemini://thurk.org/blog/644.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 03:57:49

• Stargazing 2025-03-24 Fairbanks, AK, USA: Wide Field, Aurora (publ. 2025-03-26) gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250326-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 03:58:15

• "So now that I can classify IP (Internet Protocol) addresses by ASN (Autonomous System Number) [1], I thought I might see how it could help with spam email. I'm already using an ansi-spam agent [2] to cut down on spam, so maybe filtering by ASN could cut down even more." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/03/26.1    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 03:59:11

• "is the Baton Rouge CIC doing layoffs?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpv7hvvv    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:14:38

• A bit on the cheeky side: "Hopefully Arvinds send jobs out of the U.S. gets picked up by Trump. Not a fan of his but Trump could end this trend of take jobs from Americans" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq76ayfm    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:21:25

• Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default https://lwn.net/Articles/1014002/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:28:47

• Better CPU vulnerability mitigation configuration https://lwn.net/Articles/1013640/ "Modern CPUs all have multiple hardware vulnerabilities that the kernel needs to mitigate; the 6.13 kernel has workarounds for 14 security-sensitive CPU bugs just on x86_64."    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:29:24

• Warming up to frozen pages for networking https://lwn.net/Articles/1013408/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:29:57

• "One of the many important tasks that the kernel's memory-management subsystem must handle is keeping track of how pages of memory are mapped into the address spaces of the processes running on the system. As long as mappings to a given page exist, that page must be kept in place." https://lwn.net/Articles/1013649/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:30:29

• "Organizations relying on open-source software have a wide range of tools, scorecards, and methodologies to try to assess security, legal, and other risks inherent in their so-called supply chain." https://lwn.net/Articles/1013614/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 04:31:39

• Alice Lippman (RMS mom) and Daniel Stallman divorced in 1958. He was still a child.    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 05:59:31

• So in weekdays RMS lived with his mom in Manhattan and in weekends with his dad in Queens.    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:00:34

• At age 12 he went to Columbia, which is where the war on dissent takes place this month    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:01:44

• So it is understandable if he has strong views about policy at Columbia. MIT also threw him to the dogs to save the pervert Bill Gates. http://techrights.org/o/2020/05/27/joi-ito-email/ http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:04:21

• So money basically buys policy and decisions, even at supposedly independent and 'free-thinking' universities    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:04:51

• Criminals from Microsoft boasting about trying to gag people who write about crime is a shot in one's own foot    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:20:56

• "American intellectual property (IP) lawyer" LOL! https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-source-initiative-election-is-over rigged 'election' http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/20/What_Happened_to_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Elections_Leaki.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:50:11

• Windows fell to all-time low in Nauru https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/nauru/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 06:51:28

• "it is something like 93% of the stock market is owned by 10% of the population... how much do you want to bet that 10% does not contribute very much to society... also a lot of the market value is coming from US deficit spending (2 trillion/year), that money is just sloshing around and needs to go somewhere" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq99zncg    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:12:14

• "Sorry but jobs aren’t being cut in India because that would devastate the curry industry which Arvind loves" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqax2nm6    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:13:43

• 5 reasons why Batocera is the best OS for retro gaming emulation https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-batocera-best-os-retro-gaming-emulation/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:24:44

• "Valve is releasing SteamOS into beta in a couple of months, but it needs a few critical updates to become a PC gaming destination." https://www.xda-developers.com/updates-steamos-needs-dethrone-windows/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:25:27

• 5 reasons you should use Bazzite instead of Windows on your gaming PC https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-use-bazzite-instead-windows-gaming-pc/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:26:13

• 4 of the best operating systems for your virtual machines https://www.xda-developers.com/best-os-for-virtual-machines/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:27:41

• GNU+Linux https://www.makeuseof.com/i-bought-these-laptops-actually-value-privacy/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 07:30:33

• "We know Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition is probably coming, thanks to the previous leak, but it still hasn't actually been announced yet. However, it's clearly getting closer." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/neverwinter-nights-2-enhanced-edition-hasnt-been-announced-yet-but-it-just-got-a-steam-deck-playable-rating/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:05:37

• "Junk Store may have failed to get released on Steam as Valve removed their store page" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/junk-store-plugin-for-steam-deck-plans-new-release-as-closed-source-paid-software-to-run-other-stores/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:05:48

• "ChimeraOS Linux 48 has just released bringing in a whole lot of improvements." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/chimeraos-linux-48-brings-new-hardware-support-for-your-handhelds-and-living-room-pcs/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:06:10

• "While there's no current release date for the Steam release, Infold Games are still working towards it for Infinity Nikki and it seems it may be good news for Steam Deck players." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/infinity-nikki-devs-are-working-on-steam-deck-support-for-the-steam-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:06:50

• "UnderMine 2 from developer Thorium is set to enter Early Access on July 22nd, promising to take the best bits of the fun original and expanding on it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/undermine-2-comes-to-early-access-in-july-with-co-op/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:07:03

• "The Raspberry Pi is a small, single-board computer that has been hacked into nearly any type of device you can imagine. But what if you could run Linux on a Pi in the form factor of a BlackBerry smartphone? Someone did just that." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-blackberry-pi-and-the-end-of-skype-weekly-roundup/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:08:54

• "dotAGE is a very unique turn-based village builder that blends in roguelike survival elements." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/folkways-dlc-for-the-excellent-village-builder-dotage-released-heres-a-little-interview-with-the-developer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:09:06

• This Raspberry Pi Can Survive in Cold Conditions https://www.howtogeek.com/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4-cold-temps/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:09:50

• Plex Is Ending Support for This Once-Popular NAS Brand https://www.howtogeek.com/plex-ends-drobo-support/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:10:31

• Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Is Here, Switching to Monthly Updates by Default https://www.howtogeek.com/mozilla-thunderbird-135-release/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:11:56

• Raspberry Pi 5 Now Supports Interlaced Video https://www.howtogeek.com/raspberry-pi-5-now-supports-interlaced-video/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:14:09

• A Pi 5 Is Overkill for Most Projects, Get an Older Pi Instead https://www.howtogeek.com/a-pi-5-is-overkill-for-most-projects-get-an-older-pi-instead/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:14:41

• 9 Popular Raspberry Pi Operating Systems That Aren't Raspbian https://www.howtogeek.com/popular-raspberry-pi-operating-systems-that-arent-raspbian/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:15:45

• "Monsterpatch is the latest game from Sean Young developer of Littlewood and Kindergarten, blending together Pokemon and Stardew Valley with a little of their own Littlewood thrown in." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/monsterpatch-is-pokemon-meets-stardew-valley-from-the-dev-of-littlewood-and-kindergarten/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:19:46

• "The Triple-i Initiative have now announced their gaming announcement event is scheduled for April 10th, taking up only 45 minutes of your time." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/triple-i-initiative-returns-april-10-with-over-30-announcements-heres-all-the-devs-involved/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:20:02

• "Humble Bundle just launched two new bundles with Tactical Triumph and Dice and Destiny." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/humble-launch-the-tactical-triumph-and-dice-and-destiny-bundles-both-with-some-great-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:20:51

• "Hello Game have somehow done it again." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/dig-up-planets-for-skeletons-and-fight-huge-guardians-in-the-latest-no-mans-sky-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:21:06

• Dell's staff numbers have dropped by 25,000 in just 2 years    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:28:21

• Wait, people don't buy "Windows PCs" anymore? Or barely?    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:28:56

• "What were you expecting though? Some companies cut your access off before telling you. Cannot log into work; card key not working, that kinda stuff." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp062hm7    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:30:44

• Still propping up the  large language models (LLMs) hype ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/alignment-tuning-and-rag-what-you-should-know | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:40:53

• More "AI" nonsense ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimizing-gpu-roi-inference-day-training-night | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:41:19

• Red Hat is posting nothing today except about this hype, buzzword, and maybe Ponzi scheme ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-to-achieve-scalable-cost-effective-fine-tuning-llm | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:42:19

• "Wednesday's papers: More education cuts, same-day healthcare callbacks, and sniffle season" https://yle.fi/a/74-20151904    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:43:33

• iophk: countries cannot 'save' by cutting education, that just produces higher costs and trouble down the road    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:43:46

• "Walmart Heiress’ Veiled Trump Critique Breaks Billionaire Quiet - Bloomberg" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-24/walmart-heiress-veiled-trump-critique-breaks-billionaire-quiet    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:43:56

• gang-rape https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14534349/Austrian-migrant-gang-rape-horror-Girl-12-passed-like-trophy-dozen-boys-horrifying-repeated-sex-attacks-Vienna.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:44:20

• "Mike Johnson Threatens To Eliminate Federal Courts - MeidasTouch News" https://meidasnews.com/news/mike-johnson-threatens-to-eliminate-federal-courts    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:44:54

• "Trump proves in 4 words that Mike Waltz is unfit for the job (video)" https://boingboing.net/2025/03/25/trump-proves-in-4-words-that-national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-is-unfit-for-the-job-video.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:45:10

• "Coming Up: More History" https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/26/coming-up-more-history/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:45:22

• "Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fight the Oligarchy" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fight-the-oligarchy    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:45:35

• "Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-signs-order-seeking-to-overhaul-us-elections-including-requiring-proof-of-citizenship/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:46:19

• "NATO leader warns Russia if it ever attacks Poland" https://www.twincities.com/2025/03/26/nato-leader-poland-russia/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:46:50

• "Starline - 21st Europe" https://21st-europe.com/blueprints/starline    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:47:11

• "Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown | Musa al-Gharbi | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:47:28

• "Peace requires more than a handshake: Misreading Russia’s war aims will prolong Putin’s aggression" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/peace-requires-more-than-a-handshake-misreading-russias-war-aims-will-prolong-putins-aggression/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:47:43

• "In Sign Of Move Away From Moscow, Armenian Parliament Votes To Start EU Bid" https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-russia-us-west-eu/33360738.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:48:12

• "The 25 Years of Finnix" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/24/1812238    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:48:24

• "We are currently clean on OPSEC." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/we-are-currently-clean-on-opsec/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:48:37

• "OpenDMARC, Redux" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/opendmarc-redux/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:48:51

• "Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:49:07

• "Why Social Media Is Suddenly Flooded With Studio Ghibli-Style Art" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/openai-chatgpts-why-social-media-is-suddenly-flooded-with-studio-ghibli-style-art-after-gpt-4o-launch-8020875    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:50:00

• "Macron announces €2 billion in military aid to Kyiv ahead of Ukraine security summit" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250326-macron-announces-%E2%82%AC2-billion-in-military-aid-to-kyiv-ahead-of-ukraine-security-summit    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:50:18

• "Zorin OS 17.3 cambia a Firefox por Brave... y más novedades" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/03/26/zorin-os-17-3/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:50:35

• "The Democrats’ toothless resistance" https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/03/the-democrats-toothless-resistance    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 08:50:47

• "Blame it on that reprobate Krabanaugh who can never do anything right." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqax2nm6    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 09:46:25

• IBM's management is very reviled and despised at the moment    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 09:46:47

• Giraffes for Peace ☛ https://therevelator.org/giraffes-for-peace/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 09:50:00

• autism? ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/03/26/david-geier-an-antivax-blast-from-the-past-hired-to-prove-vaccines-cause-autism/ |    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 09:56:19

• A Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager ☞ http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/a-roadmap-for-a-modern-plasma-login-manager/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:05:22

• "Several years ago, KDE retired its bespoke display manager (KDM) in favor of SDDM." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-proposes-new-plasma-login-manager-to-replace-sddm/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:06:12

• "Here's a wee issue you won't come across every day. Or even every week. Say you're using Linux. A Plasma desktop, to be more precise. Let's say Kubuntu." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-dolphin-rar-unrar.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:07:53

• "In a closely watched battle between music publishers and AI developer Anthropic, a California court has denied a request to halt the use of copyrighted song lyrics with its refusal to grant a preliminary injunction." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/anthropic-scores-preliminary-victory-in-ai-copyright-clash-against-music-companies-250326/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:09:11

• "We’ve been here before. Five years ago, I wrote a post about the EU Copyright Directive’s plans for an ancillary copyright" ☛ https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:09:41

• "This matches how courts are treating AI training cases lately — you’ve got to show the visible harm." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/26/music-publishers-injunction-against-ai-firm-anthropic-fails/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:10:27

• "A federal judge in New York today rejected OpenAI‘s bid to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times accusing the company of scraping data from its content to train its products." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/26/new-york-judge-allows-new-york-times-copyright-lawsuit-openai-proceed/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:11:17

• "The Times has said OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft have threatened its livelihood by effectively stealing billions of dollars worth of work by its journalists" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-03-26/judge-allows-newspaper-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-to-proceed | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:12:12

• "The landmark law took effect in 2023 and applies tough competition rules on Meta and six other companies deemed [Internet] gatekeepers." ☛ https://nypost.com/2025/03/24/business/european-union-to-fine-meta-up-to-1b-or-more-for-breaching-digital-markets-act-sources/ | Source: NYPost    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:13:52

• "The European Commission has fined Meta €797.72 million for breaching EU antitrust rules by tying its online classified ads service Facebook Marketplace to its personal social network Facebook and by imposing unfair trading conditions on other online classified ads service providers." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5801 | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 10:13:59

• "Contrary to any misinterpretations of the Internet2 mission statement, it was not intended to be a replacement or “new” Internet." ☛ https://www.networkworld.com/article/948606/internet2-at-20-alive-and-kicking.html | Source: Network World    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:02:29

• "In 1933, after the people had rejected Hoover’s plan to let the Depression burn itself out, President-elect Roosevelt asked Perkins to serve as Secretary of Labor in his administration." ☛ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-25-2025 |    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:02:56

• "Many accessibility groups warn that alt text should not just be fully automated like appears to be happening in the AOL article." ☛ https://www.404media.co/aols-ai-image-captions-terribly-describe-attempted-murder/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:03:09

• "Major League Baseball, it appears, does not. For over a decade, MLB has had a DEI program and a webpage for that program." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/26/mlb-misplaces-its-spine-alters-language-to-its-diversity-programs/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:03:22

• "Russian prisons have long been notorious for widespread torture, but over the past three years, the problem has worsened significantly." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/26/mom-you-have-no-idea-what-they-re-doing-to-me | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:03:37

• "What will happen next with Radio TV Martí remains to be seen." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-03-25/trump-fulfills-fidel-castros-lifelong-dream-by-silencing-radio-television-marti.html | Source: El País    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:04:18

• "terminating RFE/RL’s grant and that the actions would cause the broadcaster "irreparable harm" if carried out." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/court-tro-usagm-halt-moves-close-radio-free-europe/33358959.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:04:54

• "Millions of Americans from major cities to rural areas rely on NPR and PBS for news and information on natural disasters, political developments, and so much more" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-house-hearing-on-pbs-and-npr-a-dangerous-mischaracterization-of-u-s-public-media/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:05:21

• "If you can assassinate the leader of the opposition in the middle of your capital city and completely get away with it, you can do absolutely anything" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-life/former-political-prisoner-vladimir-kara-murza-discusses-russian-fight-for-democracy/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:06:25

• "Casablanca Court on March 3, 2025, sentenced a prominent activist, Fouad Abdelmoumni, to six months in prison and fines over a Facebook post, Human Rights Watch, and DAWN said today." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/morocco-activist-sentenced-for-peaceful-speech/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:06:46

• "Imagine an internet where every website faced an impossible choice: either carefully review every single post before it goes live (making them essentially TV stations), or allow absolutely everything with zero moderation." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/26/otherwise-objectionable-the-internet-at-risk/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:07:19

• "European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde's recent remarks on a "digital euro" prompted a fresh wave of misinformation online, highlighting an uphill battle ahead to convince the public of the project's merits." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2288630.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:08:31

• "The rapid surge in anti-CPEC propaganda on TikTok is alarming." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/26/tiktok-cpec-and-the-digital-battlefield/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:08:47

• "The campaign was identified during an investigation into a Bulgarian woman accused of spying for Russia earlier this year." ☛ https://therecord.media/austria-uncovers-russian-disinfo-campaign | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:09:12

• "Now put those numbers in the context of an Apple, a Microsoft, or a Google." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/the-cost-of-getting-too-big | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:10:03

• "You would think that a campaign infused with Hollywood people would be able to make a commercial." ☛ https://pricepoint.substack.com/p/woke-is-the-new-disco |    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:10:15

• "The tax is called an equalization levy, and since its introduction in 2016 has seen non-resident companies required to pay 6 percent of earnings derived from digital advertising." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/india_drops_digital_ads_tax/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:11:10

• "It’s hard to know what’s next and how this will play out exactly, but economists and industry experts predict that most or all these costs will be passed on directly to buyers." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/it-leaders-brace-for-tariff-fallout-on-infrastructure-and-cloud-costs/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:11:50

• "The move was announced by the Bureau of Industry and Security, or BIS, a Commerce Department office tasked with enforcing trade controls." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/26/us-imposes-export-restrictions-chinese-tech-firms/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:18:41

• "According to Dell’s Form 10-K, the formal regulatory filing that serves as an annual report rather than the glossy version produced for shareholders, it employed around 108,000 at the end of January." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/dell_layoffs_2025/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:18:54

• "In the two weeks since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a directive requiring the use of rapid procurement methods and contracting tools for all software acquisition" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/pentagon/2025/03/26/in-the-wake-of-hegseths-software-memo-experts-eye-further-change/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:19:10

• "VA is one of the largest employers in the federal government, with around 480,000 staffers. An overtime pay issue affecting about 2% of that total would still be nearly 10,000 individuals." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/veterans/2025/03/26/some-va-employees-overtime-pay-will-be-delayed-by-software-problems/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:19:23

• "But I’m hardly the first person to have had questions about the gap between DEI’s promise and how it functions in reality." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/dei-was-always-flawed-but-the-backlash-is-truly-alarming/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:19:38

• "It provides functions for quantitative financial modeling" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/collecting-stock-data-using-r-a-quick-guide/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:21:00

• "Transport for London (TfL) has announced that all non-folding e-bikes will be banned from the majority of London’s public transport network." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/636207/tlf-london-underground-e-bike-ban-conversion-mods-fires | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:30:12

• "A truly integrated rail system is no longer just a matter of convenience; it’s a strategic necessity for Europe’s resilience in the 21st century," reads the 'Starline' report." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250326/will-europes-high-speed-metro-style-rail-network-really-happen | Source: The Local DK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:30:32

• "Just months ago, a boom in data center construction was at its height, fueled by both government and private investors." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/26/1113802/china-ai-data-centers-unused/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:31:01

• "we'd argue there's a far simpler explanation as to why Microsoft might be pulling back on its datacenter leases: many datacenters can't handle the power and cooling demands created by high-end AI hardware." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/microsoft_ai_apocalypse/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:31:16

• "New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-03-amount-fresh-lithium-vastly-overestimated.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:31:54

• "Recycling could significantly reduce the need to extract virgin material, a process that is riddled with human rights and environmental concerns, such as the reliance on open pit mines in developing countries." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/26/mining-is-an-environmental-and-human-rights-nightmare-battery-recycling-can-ease-that/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:32:04

• "Juliana v. United States, named after plaintiff Kelsey Juliana—was challenged repeatedly by the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations" ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/u-s-climate-youth-lose-decade-long-lawsuit-that-saw-plaintiffs-grow-from-childhood-to-adulthood/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:32:18

• "But the source denied that Rubio had voiced concerns quite like that." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-26/rubio-didnt-raise-u-s-concerns-over-turkey-protests-as-stated-turkish-source-says | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:33:09

• "In the chat, Hegseth included time stamps for when F-18 aircraft would launch and arrive at targets and when Tomahawk missiles would be fired at buildings controlled by Houthi members." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/03/26/obviously-classified-experts-say-hegseth-chat-leaks-invited-danger/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:33:22

• "Why it matters: The White House has confirmed the authenticity of the explosive text messages published by The Atlantic" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/signal-chat-atlantic-goldberg-release-texts | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:33:47

• "Houthi PC small group" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:35:17

• "A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:35:33

• "Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7 | Source: Spiegel    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:35:52

• Overpopulation ☛ https://medium.com/@NickHein/make-room-make-room-dystopian-warning-from-harry-harrison-e2e237b2daed | Source: Medium    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:36:31

• "instrumentalised migration" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20152064 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:37:19

• "This statement deserves to be examined not merely as one senator’s gaffe but as a window into the complete collapse of serious thought" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/26/the-collapse-of-republican-seriousness/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:38:06

• "Taken as a whole, this attack on law firms is nothing short of an assault on the very idea of an independent legal profession." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/big-law-trump-executive-order/682173/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:38:23

• "This is all, of course, a very long way of saying that there is no messaging app that can protect you if you are wildly careles" ☛ https://www.404media.co/when-your-threat-model-is-being-a-moron-signal/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:39:07

• "As that name becomes a shorthand for the biggest public blunder of the second Trump administration to date" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/signalgate-isnt-about-signal/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:39:24

• "non-classified space" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/signal-cybersecurity-trump-war-planning-00246881 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:44:06

• "Team Trump tried to claim his account of the security fiasco" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/signal_calls_congress/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:44:41

• "If any of this had leaked at the moment Hegseth blathered it over Signal" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-trump-denials/682179/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:45:15

• "Contrast Obama with another "populist outsider" in the Democratic Party: Bernie Sanders." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/26/not-me-us/#the-people-no | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:45:38

• "The latest evidence the regime is "a clown car driving against traffic on the interstate of leadership" was met with outrage" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/absolute-fucking-clown-show | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:46:05

• Cheeto "told reporters that he could extend the deadline again." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/technology/personaltech/tiktok-ban-deadline.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:46:26

• "work with Congress to save TikTok from going dark in the US after April 5th" but SCOTUS already said block it ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/635019/tiktok-ban-deadline-extension-trump-markey-van-hollen-booker | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:46:58

• "The deadline for TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest from its U.S. operations is April 5, 2025." ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/tiktok-ban-donald-trump-senators-extend-deadline-sale-looms-2049981 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:47:30

• Cheeto "said last month that he could further extend that deadline to give himself time to shepherd a deal" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senators-urge-trump-seek-authority-congress-tiktok-sale-extension-2025-03-24/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:48:00

• "The answer is “yes.” These people are both incompetent and evil." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/incompetent-or-evil-a-false-dichotomy | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:48:25

• "When you look at a movie like Notorious made in 1946, in the immediate aftermath of World War II" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/hitchcock-and-nazis/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:49:32

• "The apparent denouement of this 19-year saga raises a number of questions for investors and consumers" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-26/23andme-files-for-bankruptcy-putting-its-hoard-of-personal-health-information-at-risk | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:50:13

• "impose privacy-invading age verification requirements" ☛ https://www.404media.co/texas-sex-toy-age-verification/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:50:22

• "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have an MFA equipped OIDC identity provider (an 'OP' in the jargon), and you would like to use it to authenticate SSH connections." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSHAuthenticationWithOIDCTokens | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:51:15

• "The breach, which was discovered last week during maintenance and referred to the NSW Police State Crime Command’s Cybercrime Squad on Tuesday, affected the NSW Online Registry Website" ☛ https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/at-least-9000-court-documents-exposed-in-major-data-breach-20250326-p5lmto.html | Source: Sydney Morning Herald    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:51:36

• "NSW Police said detectives were investigating the "major data breach"." ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/nsw-court-website-major-data-breach-documents-leaked/105100678 | Source: ABC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:51:56

• "Upon further examination, they worked out that an account holder within the justice link system had gained an unlawful entry into that system" ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/nsw-hacker-data-breach-identity-unknown-police-say/105101486 | Source: ABC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:52:21

• "Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are exposed more often than you might think to external HTTP/S traffic, to allow outside access to the applications they run." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/kubernetes_flaw_rce_risk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:52:40

• Windows TCO: "Exploitation of the zero-day, flagged as CVE-2025-26633 and fixed on Patch Tuesday" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-ransomware-gang-exploited-windows-zero-day-before-patch/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:54:03

• Windows TCO: "Under both the European Union and United Kingdom’s data protection laws" ☛ https://therecord.media/advanced-fined-3-million-ransomware-attack-ico | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:54:13

• [Old] "Scammers and hackers got more tech tools, while users got locked in—because those moves were profitable too." ☛ https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-real-crisis-in-humanities-isnt |    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:54:59

• "I am particularly very happy that now Micro.blog offers the option to host your blog in Germany." ☛ https://blog.pcora.eu/2025/03/26/hosted-in-eu.html | Source: Pedro    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:55:30

• "I recently read an article in Marketing Brew by Ryan Barwick and Katie Hicks titled How Facebook lost its groove." ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/creators-and-more-and-more-content/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:55:42

• "Need serious privacy on a regular basis? Work with these distributions, and you'll leave no trace. There's even a Windows and MacOS option." https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-best-linux-distros-for-staying-anonymous-when-a-vpn-isnt-enough/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:57:44

• "If you want to install a Linux desktop and server, you'd typically choose two different distributions. With Trisquel, you get both in one. But are the tradeoffs worth it?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/handles-both-your-desktop-and-server-needs-or-does-it/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:58:07

• "This Linux tool is my new go-to for easier searching, upgrading, and automating my system. Anyone who works on a Linux desktop should try it." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-helpful-new-linux-tool-ive-tried-in-years-and-how-i-use-it/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:58:36

• "It’s basically an AI-generated honeypot. And AI scraping is a growing problem: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/ai-data-poisoning.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:59:18

• "UK-based agency Newsflare has withdrawn a number of fake videos it distributed which appear to have been generated using AI." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/wires_and_agencies/fake-ai-generated-video-newsflare-cat-in-bird-nest/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:59:30

• "The fact that something is already happening makes it even more important to have a sharper idea of what exactly is going on when humans become entangled with these “social AI” or “conversational AI” tools." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/405680/artificial-intelligence-chatbot-friends-relationships-philosophy | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:59:47

• "But in China, Tesla has been unable to train the system with data from its 2 million EVs because of the country's data laws." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-says-will-release-fsd-feature-china-after-software-approval-2025-03-24/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:00:02

• "After a rocky rollout of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) system in China, Tesla is dropping “FSD” from the name of the system while it faces increased scrutiny from regulators." ☛ https://electrek.co/2025/03/25/tesla-drops-fsd-from-name-of-its-driver-assist-tech-in-china/ | Source: Electrek    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:00:52

• "Full Self-Driving" ☛ https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-china | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:01:10

• Proprietary crapware ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ukraine-railway-cyberattack-confirmed/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:08:58

• "The team found that manual methods of brewing coffee generally resulted in lower diterpene levels than grabbing a cup from a machine" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/how-you-make-your-coffee-could-affect-your-cholesterol-levels | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:12:23

• "Honeybee deaths in the United States have surged to record highs, with commercial beekeepers reporting having lost an average of 62 percent of their colonies over the winter" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/honeybees-deaths-us-2025.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:12:45

• "As a result, children as young as 2 years old are diagnosed. Reasons have included frequent library chatter and an inability to sit still while listening to music." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/american-kids-are-overmedicated/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:13:04

• "The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that naturally occur within electronic circuits" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-extropic-plans-to-unseat-nvidia/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:14:06

• "The Marines first awarded a $40 million contract to Oshkosh to build the unmanned missile launcher after a prototyping phase ended in September 2023." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/land/2025/03/26/oshkosh-defense-unveils-new-variant-of-marine-remote-fires-vehicle/ | Source: USMC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:14:16

• "There’s no shortcut to gaining experience. You can’t consume enough content to get it. You have to do." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/value-of-experience/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:14:51

• "Toil — manual, repetitive tasks and sometimes dubbed “busy work” — had been steadily declining since 2020, thanks to automation and streamlined workflows." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/5-non-ai-reasons-why-you-still-have-toil/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:15:34

• "It's not exactly what's happening with smartphones, but I think about this story pretty frequently these days when the topic of phone addiction comes up." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/the-tale-of-narcissus/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:15:45

• "How bad is it for educators right now?" ☛ https://www.honest-broker.com/p/whats-happening-to-students?ref=birchtree.me |    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:16:23

• "One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openworm-worm-simulator-biology-code/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:17:07

• "The super heavy rockets were built and used for nine crewed flights to the Moon from December 1968 to December 1972, as well as for launching US space station Skylab in 1973." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/50_years_since_last_saturn/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:17:16

• "has been discovered by an archivist in Cambridge University Library, folded and stitched into the binding of the 16th-Century register." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250324-the-magical-medieval-tale-revealed-by-a-100000-dollar-camera | Source: BBC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:20:17

• "Her work was so quiet and fundamental—to academia and industry, all over the world—that Mary believed her job would be safe" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/deep-state-diaries/the-governments-rock-librarian | Source: New Yorker    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:20:42

• "The impetus for the Technical Blogging episode was me asking Bryan some questions about his blogging: how he got started, why he continues, the most surprising impact, and so on." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/bryan-cantrill-and-friends-on-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:24:13

• "They were on the right track. If you open your chosen graphic in the GNU Image Manipulation Program (a program that desperately needs a rebrand), then choose Image → Mode → Indexed, you see this dialogue box: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/dithering-images-on-my-retro-corner/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:24:32

• "Blogging has always been a part of my web experience. Earliest I can remember is building my band a GeoCities website back in high school." ☛ https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/blog-questions-challenge-2025/ | Source: Ryan Mulligan    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:24:52

• "At the same time, writing in both languages without a formal i18n setup feels messy and disorganized. I think readers find it confusing to navigate a site where some posts are in English and others in Portuguese." ☛ https://abf.li/posts/between-two-languages/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:26:41

• "I really should just rebrand this site as a BSD and retrocomputing blog and be done with it." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/its-my-birthday-2025/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:27:01

• "Unlike the web (or even Gemini or gopher) there isn't one dominant network here—it's all spread out. I don't think it's really worth the effort to block via ASN for spam. At least for my email server." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/03/26.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:27:11

• Blasting Past Webp ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/03/blasting-past-webp.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:29:47

• Plastics are good. As long as they are recycled. ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/03/26/plastics-are-good-as-long-as-they-are-recycled/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:56:20

• "Better known online as rachelbythebay, Kroll has a good reputation in the tech industry. She's wrangled servers for Facebook and Lyft, and has been a speaker at events from USEnix to Strange Loop. She's also collected some of her writing in books, which used to be on Amazon, but which you can now get, free of DRM, from the Gumroad store." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/uninstall_atop_for_now/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 12:57:11

• Strained communication with Father gemini://tilde.club/~kyurivlis/gemlog/W13/4.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:05:12

• 🔤SpellBinding — EULMOTH Wordo: IODIC gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-27.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:05:50

• "Here's one way to deal with #AI #bots and #scrapers hammering our websites: set up a trap. I've hidden a link on my website that humans wouldn't click on, but scrapers would follow." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:07:16

• "This article focuses solely on traffic telemetry protocols that export information about network packets (either in parsed format or as the first X bytes of the packet itself) observed or forwarded by network equipment." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/03/27/network-traffic-telemetry-on-modern-routers-part-1/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:09:01

• Network traffic telemetry on modern routers: Part 2 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/03/27/network-traffic-telemetry-on-modern-routers-part-2/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:09:18

• "A third release of the crc32c package is now on CRAN. The package bring the Google library crc32c to R and offers cyclical checksums with parity in hardware-accelerated form on (recent enough) intel cpus as well as on arm64." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/25/#crc32c_0.0.3 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:11:46

• "In this post, we will look at the problem of semi-global alignment, as a next step after previous posts on global alignment." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/mapping/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:11:55

• "It is not a good idea to use Regular Expressions to parse HTML - no matter how well-formed you think it is. Instead, use XPath to extract data from the DOM." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/create-a-table-of-contents-based-on-html-heading-elements/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:12:11

• "There are four important methods on Zig's std.mem.Allocator interface that Zig developers must be comfortable with: [...]" ☛ https://www.openmymind.net/Allocator-resize/ | Source: Karl Seguin    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:12:26

• "Again, this is not my world. I've never written a heap exploit, but reading about it briefly makes me think that there's meat on these bones." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/26/atop/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:12:51

• "During the last two weeks, first we saw what are the language features deprecated or removed from C++26 then we did the same for library features." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/03/26/cpp26-undeprecate | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:20:01

• "Thanks to our extensive research, we confidently decided to retire the newer UI and focus entirely on improving the older interface." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/antonella-de-bellis/unlocking-ux-a-user-centred-journey-for-ripestat/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:20:28

• "Immich 1.130, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, is here with a folder view for mobile, faster timelines, and massive external library scan speed boosts." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-130-released-with-massive-speed-gains/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:22:11

• "Abelujo is free software for bookstores, published under the AGPLv3. It is a web application that helps booksellers register new stock and sell books" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interview-with-abelujo-founder | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:22:52

• "Clownflare released OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) as open source (Apache-2.0 license) under the umbrella of the OpenPubkey project." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cloudflare-open-sources-opkssh/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:23:46

• "There may be unusual devices from obscure companies that are smaller, but I didn’t see a single device for sale in those general electronics stores that were the size of my SE3, let alone smaller" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-large-dearth-of-small-phones/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:25:30

• "During the last few years, for more and more people, the line between a proper laptop computer and a mobile device, like a smartphone or a tablet, has been getting increasingly blurrier." ☛ https://thelibre.news/can-an-android-phone-be-your-next-linux-pc/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:25:51

• "Samsung, a global leader in the technology industry, is often recognized for its cutting-edge devices and innovative features rivaling with Apple." ☛ https://abf.li/posts/disappointment-with-samsung/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:26:56

• "This time around I learned from my old mistakes, and made some fresh new ones! The result looks like this: [...]" ☛ https://mediocregopher.com/workshop/terrace-workbench/ | Source: Mediocregopher    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:29:10

• "Now, there’s nothing wrong with trying to grow your user base." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-17-3-tries-to-attract-windows-10-users/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:30:02

• "Zorin OS 17.3 is built to be the ideal replacement for Windows 10. It gives these computers a new lease on life with a fast, user-friendly" ☛ https://blog.zorin.com/2025/03/26/zorin-os-17.3-is-here/ | Source: Zorin Group    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:35:23

• "The Zorin OS project has published an update for the Ubuntu-based distribution which seeks to make former Windows users feel at home." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12389 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:35:40

• Zorin OS 17.3 Released with New Default Browser ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/zorin-os-17-3-released-with-new-default-browser    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:37:05

• Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS 17.3 Is Now Available Targeting backdoored Windows 10 Users ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-based-zorin-os-17-3-is-now-available-targeting-windows-10-users    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:37:36

• "As a complete desktop experience, it's our job to provide support for the edge cases too." ☛ https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/a-roadmap-for-a-modern-plasma-login-manager/ | Source: David Edmundson    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:39:58

• "I always was fascinated with the fact that you can program a shitload of mini games using only 510 bytes." ☛ https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/bootsector-games-hello-world/ | Source: Noë Flatreaud    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:42:06

• "What I mean with shrink design is that I enjoy taking existing board games that often come in big boxes and look into what I can do" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/shrink-designing-board-games/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:42:29

• "Staring long enough at honeypot logs, I am sure you will come across one or the other "oddity." Something that at first does not make any sense, but then, in some way, does make sense." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31796 | Source: SANS    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:43:53

• "I work for ADN Telecom Ltd, an ISP in Bangladesh. Like any ISP, there are times when we need to push bulk updates to customers, so we decided to go for automation." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/03/26/automating-isp-networks-with-ansible-and-phpipam/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:44:04

• "A well-designed storage performance benchmark provides meaningful insights into system capabilities, but inaccurate methods can lead to misleading conclusions." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/accurate-effective-storage-performance-benchmark/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:45:31

• How To Install Fwupd on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fwupd-opensuse/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:46:50

• How To Install Kitty Terminal Emulator on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kitty-terminal-emulator-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:47:14

• How To Install Valgrind on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-valgrind-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:47:37

• How To Install Opera Browser on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opera-browser-debian-12/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:49:16

• Celebrating Document Freedom Day ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/26/celebrating-document-freedom-day/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:49:39

• RHEL for Real Time: CPU throttling and risks ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/26/rhel-real-time-cpu-throttling-and-risks    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:50:04

• How to fine-tune LLMs with Kubeflow Training Operator ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/26/how-fine-tune-llms-kubeflow-training-operator    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:50:12

• Deliver generative Hey Hi (AI) at scale with NVIDIA NIM on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/26/generative-ai-nvidia-nim-openshift-ai    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:50:22

• How To Install LibreNMS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-librenms-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:50:52

• How To Install Windsurf on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-windsurf-debian-12/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:51:07

• "Subsonic gives you full control over your media anytime, anywhere and it is packed with useful features and comes with apps for Android and iOS, making it a versatile media server." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/subsonic-personal-media-server/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:53:00

• "However, if a service crashes or stops unexpectedly, it won’t restart automatically, to fix such an issue, you need to set up a system to restart services automatically after a failure." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/auto-restart-service-openrc/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:55:33

• After the fall of a student fraternity member in Graz, right-wing Styria cracks down on the left-wing scene ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/03/26/after-the-fall-of-a-student-fraternity-member-in-graz-right-wing-styria-cracks-down-on-the-left-wing-scene/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:57:37

• 2025 15-Minute Bug Initiative update ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/25/2025-15-minute-bug-initiative-update/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:58:05

• Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-4-1/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 13:58:28

• Mozilla tries to seem like it promotes (sells) privacy, but it leaves out privacy-respecting platforms and instead promotes a back-doored one which takes screenshots all the time, making them available to police, Microsoft, etc. ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/extensions-addons/mozilla-vpn-for-firefox/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:01:19

• Freedom Does Not Come From One Vendor ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/03/26/freedom-is-not-one-vender/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:03:04

• "Variscite has released the VAR-SOM-AM62P, a new System on Module based on the Texas Instruments Sitara AM62Px processor. This module expands the VAR-SOM product line with enhanced multimedia functionality while maintaining a focus on cost efficiency." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/variscite-expands-som-lineup-with-var-som-am62p-featuring-ti-sitara-am62px-processor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:06:42

• Richard W.M. Jones: Graphical differences between two disk images ☞ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/graphical-differences-between-two-disk-images/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:08:25

• Ruby 3.2.8 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/03/26/ruby-3-2-8-released/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:11:57

• Ruby 3.1.7 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/03/26/ruby-3-1-7-released/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:12:22

• Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness ☞ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/betteridges-law-of-software-engineering/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:14:07

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Adopting the FLS ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/26/adopting-the-fls.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:15:36

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppRedis 0.2.5 on CRAN: Fix Bashism in Configure, Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/26#rcppredis_0.2.5    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:17:06

• Red Hat streamlines data access for Hey Hi (AI) application training and inference ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/26/red-hat-boosts-data-access-ai-application-training-inference/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:18:45

• String of defects in popular Kubernetes component puts 40% of cloud environments at risk ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/kubernetes-nginx-controller-defects-wiz/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:20:03

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News, LinuxSecurity.com, and the General Demise of the Web ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/26/Slopwatch_Google_News_LinuxSecurity_com_and_the_General_Demise_.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:25:44

• "Typically, shells use profiles (e.g., .bashrc) to manage persistent configuration changes. For example, if I want to permanently set an environment variable then I might do so in my shell configuration file. Then my changes would be loaded each time I start my shell (or terminal application)." gemini://pwshnotes.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-03-27-fish-autosuggestion.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 14:49:44

• Twitter fell from 3.64% to about 2% since MElonisation https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/india/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 15:02:15

• "What is the severance in Canada, Ontario?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq586rbe    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 15:20:28

• "They better make that an 8 year old for the goons that Elmo has hired." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqbeyn6n    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 15:21:03

• "Oops! That is going to hurt for IBM Consulting... but well deserved, they rarely deliver anything of value and certainly overcharge for everything. Good Luck fellows!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqbeyn6n    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 15:21:29

• Korean clothing advertised with a Mac Classic!? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/korean-clothing-company-advertising-with-a-mac-classic/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:15:19

• Commerce limits 19 Chinese, Taiwanese companies from buying U.S. tech ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/commerce-sanctions-chinese-firms-quantum-computing-ai-cloud/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:16:20

• If Convicted Felon wants peace in Ukraine, he must increase the pressure on Putin ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/if-trump-wants-peace-in-ukraine-he-must-increase-the-pressure-on-putin/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:16:43

• Coalition of the willing must press Convicted Felon to avoid Russia's 'outrageous conditions', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250326-coalition-of-the-willing-must-press-trump-to-avoid-russia-s-outrageous-conditions-analyst-says    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:17:02

• Former political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza discusses Russian fight for democracy ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-life/former-political-prisoner-vladimir-kara-murza-discusses-russian-fight-for-democracy/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:17:25

• US expands China trade blacklist, closes susidiary loopholes ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-expands-china-trade-blacklist-closes-susidiary-loopholes    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:17:36

• Latvian PM Siliņa to attend 'coalition of the willing' meeting in Paris ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/26.03.2025-latvian-pm-silina-to-attend-coalition-of-the-willing-meeting-in-paris.a593060/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:17:54

• France to commit $2 billion more in Ukraine aid, says Macron ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250327-france-to-commit-2-billion-more-in-ukraine-aid-says-macron    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:18:10

• Replay: Zelensky, Macron hold joint press conference ahead of Ukraine summit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250327-replay-zelensky-macron-hold-joint-press-conference-ahead-of-ukraine-summit    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:18:26

• Russia targets Ukraine with mass drone attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250326-russia-targets-ukraine-with-mass-drone-attacks    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:18:37

• Macron announces €2 billion in military aid to Kyiv ahead of Ukraine security summit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250326-macron-announces-%E2%82%AC2-billion-in-military-aid-to-kyiv-ahead-of-ukraine-security-summit    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:19:35

• Lithuanian president says Moscow is ‘trying to buy time’ with peace talks ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2521661/lithuanian-president-says-moscow-is-trying-to-buy-time-with-peace-talks    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:19:48

• Zelenskyy Urges US, Other Partners To Stand Strong In Face Of Russian Demands ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-macron-ukraine-russia-coalition-willing/33361483.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:20:04

• Alone In A War-Torn Village, Ukrainian Man Buried His Wife And Walked To Safety ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-frontline-village/33361111.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:20:32

• Zelenskyy, Macron Call for Unconditional Cease-fire As Russia Tables Demands ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-preconditions/33361098.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:20:51

• Russian Court Convicts Azov Fighters Of Terrorism In Trial Kyiv Calls A 'War Crime' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/azov-mariupol-russia-court-war-crime/33360557.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:21:10

• Ukraine, Russia Report Drone And Energy Infrastructure Attacks As Kremlin's Conditions Cloud Black Sea Truce ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/drone-attacks-black-sea-agreements-russia-ukraine/33360447.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:21:22

• European Leaders to Try to Hammer Out Ukraine Support Plans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/europe/european-leaders-ukraine-support.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:21:35

• How Russia’s Tactics Give Them an Advantage in U.S.-led Peace Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-peace-talks.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:21:52

• Europe Talks Tough on Military Spending, but Unity Is Fracturing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/ukraine-us-nato-eu-defense.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:22:07

• Russia and Ukraine Agree to Black Sea Cease-Fire: What to Know ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-black-sea-cease-fire.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:22:24

• "E.U. says full withdrawal from Ukraine must come first" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/27/rubio-says-russia-seeks-swift-access-e-u-says-full-withdrawal-from-ukraine-must-come-first | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:23:39

• "Ukraine’s energy strikes have done hundreds of millions of dollars of damage" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/26/ukraine-s-strikes-on-russian-energy-targets-have-done-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-of-damage-over-six-months-new-report-finds | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:23:57

• "nukes in Ukraine were ‘Russia’s" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/26/trump-envoy-claims-nukes-ukraine-gave-up-under-budapest-memorandum-were-russia-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:24:43

• "dragging their feet" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/26/trump-says-russian-leaders-may-be-dragging-their-feet-on-ukraine-peace-deal | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:24:58

• "drone war video game" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/26/russia-s-industry-and-trade-ministry-suggests-creating-video-game-on-drone-warfare-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:25:17

• Rinkēvičs: Europe needs stricter migration controls ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/26.03.2025-rinkevics-europe-needs-stricter-migration-controls.a593026/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:25:55

• There’s a right way to lift sanctions on Russia. Follow these Dos and Don’ts. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/theres-a-right-way-to-lift-sanctions-on-russia-follow-these-dos-and-donts/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:26:17

• In Sign Of Move Away From Moscow, Armenian Parliament Votes To Start EU Bid ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-russia-us-west-eu/33360738.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:26:35

• Japan ‘seriously concerned’ over Russia-N. Korea ties: Draft paper ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-seriously-concerned-over-russia-n-korea-ties-draft-paper    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:26:48

• FLOSS Weekly Episode 826 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/floss-weekly-episode-826-fedora-42-and-kde/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:27:19

• Never in a million years... ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/never-million-years    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:28:04

• Troll as head of USPTO: "the next USPTO Director, John Squires, was chief IP counsel at Goldman Sachs and helped create Fortress Investment’s IP fund." https://ipfray.com/donald-trump-jr-invests-in-famous-patent-monetizer-erich-spangenbergs-new-company-by-extension-becomes-upc-user-ipo-filing/ http://techrights.org/wiki/USPTO/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:32:27

• New Russian Ambassador To US To Present Credentials On March 27 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ambassador-washington-darchiyev-state-department/33361494.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:33:10

• "How Russian emigrants are adjusting to life abroad" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/26/less-sadness-more-frustration | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:33:33

• "Russian electronics makers push to curb foreign imports" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/26/russian-electronics-makers-propose-limits-on-parallel-imports-of-foreign-devices | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:33:48

• Four US soldiers killed during training exercise in Lithuania, NATO leader says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250326-four-us-soldiers-killed-during-training-exercise-in-lithuania-nato-leader-says    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:34:08

• NATO Walks Back Rutte’s Remarks On US Troop Deaths In Lithuania ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-soldiers-missing-lithuania-belarus/33360885.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:34:18

• Vehicle Carrying 4 U.S. Soldiers Is Found in a Lithuanian Swamp, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/europe/us-army-soldiers-missing-lithuania.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:34:31

• Federal Judge Denies Music Publishers’ Injunction Request in Anthropic Copyright Suit, Citing ‘Significant Concerns Regarding Enforceability and Manageability’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/26/anthropic-lawsuit-music-publishers/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:36:52

• Essential Open Source Tools for Network Administrators ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/03/essential-open-source-tools-for-network-administrators/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:38:06

• MongoDB Atlas Expands In Southeast Asia ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/03/mongodb-atlas-expands-in-southeast-asia/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:38:16

• Obituary of my favorite CD shop: Stereo ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/obituary-of-my-favorite-cd-shop/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:38:51

• 📚 Enchanted Pages ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1070/enchanted-pages    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:39:20

• Georges Basile Stavracas Neto: A Sysprof enhancement ☞ https://feaneron.com/2025/03/26/a-sysprof-enhancement/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:39:55

• Kubernetes v1.33 sneak peek ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/03/26/kubernetes-v1-33-upcoming-changes/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:41:43

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 23 March 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/03/week-recap-23-mar-2025/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:43:23

• wait3() System Call as a Side Channel in Setuid Programs: nvidia-modprobe case study (CVE-2024-0149) ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2025/03/26/nvidia-modprobe.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:44:33

• SUSE Security Team Spotlight Winter 2024/2025 ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2025/03/26/winter-spotlight.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:46:06

• Kernel 6.14: Enhanced hardware capabilities, improved performance & more! ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-614-enhances-hardware-capabilities-improved-performance.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:46:26

• PAR Scrape is a web scraping tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/par-scrape-web-scraping-tool/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:48:18

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-font-viewers/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:48:25

• Qt-DAB is a DAB decoder ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qt-dab-decoder/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:48:32

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 592 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/03/26/this-week-in-rust-592/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:49:53

• w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/w2vgrep-semantic-grep-tool/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:50:24

• "Outplacement services like SinkStupid are almost always garbage and probably exist for the sole purpose of people like Nickel getting kick-backs or fulfilling some kind of legal requirement. They hire someone off of Fiverr with zero experience in your field to tell you how to format a resume in Microsoft Word and to join LinkedIn and network." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqbd2ax0    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:57:45

• "I've known 7 people who were laid off including myself. I was at the end of 2024 and no, not a single one of us found it useful. My new position was from networking with Executivesn" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqbd2ax0    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:58:43

• "Be delighted that you've been RA'd. You're getting off the Titanic while there's still lifeboats. This company is sinking fast and is irrelevant." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq586rbe    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:59:32

• "I used to manage Australia, all of them have been laid off." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq586rbe    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 17:59:54

• "Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Obama are just actors. None of them have a useful skillset for society. They are just good at putting on a show to move money or buy votes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq99w6vd    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:01:09

• "The jobs will come back because eventually those countries will want more and kick out the US to start their own companies, just like what China has done. Forget the fact that it makes the US dependent upon those countries that we outsourced the work to. Maybe that is why we have such a large military so that we can 'encourage' those countries to behave the way we want." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jq99w6vd    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:01:23

• "I am a bit confused about the notice period. According to ontario law it is supposed to be 8 weeks if more than 50 people are impacted. Seems like they are trying to rush people into accepting (have to accept within less than 2 weeks) whatever they are offering." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqa4aht9    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:03:39

• Xbox's Perfect Dark Co-Developer Announces Several Layoffs https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/03/xboxs-perfect-dark-co-developer-announces-several-layoffs    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:05:41

• LLM Slop (Lots of It Spewed Out by Microsoft) Versus GNU/Linux (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/26/LLM_Slop_Lots_of_It_Spewed_Out_by_Microsoft_Versus_Linux.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:07:03

• Zorin OS 17.3 is out, bringing a new default browser, bug fixes, and more ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/zorin-os-173-is-out-bringing-a-new-default-browser-bug-fixes-and-more/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:08:04

• Linux Runs Almost Everything, But They Almost Never Tell You This (No Marketing Budget) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/25/Linux_Runs_Almost_Everything_But_They_Almost_Never_Tell_You_Thi.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:08:52

• Growing Poverty Rates in the United States of America (or Elsewhere) Beneficial to GNU/Linux Adoption ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/25/Growing_Poverty_Rates_in_the_United_States_of_America_or_Elsewh.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:08:59

• Going GNU/Linux #465 · Listener Feedback ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-465-listener-feedback/index.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:09:45

• MPV 0.40.0 Released with NVIDIA RTX HDR Support [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/03/mpv-0-40-0-released-ubuntu-ppa/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:10:20

• A modern find command ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/293/User-Friendly-Search    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:11:41

• Phoronix promoting Microsoft crapware again. Refusing to improve...    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:20:09

• Even twice in a single day    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:21:00

• Understanding pacman -Syu Command in Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/pacman-syu/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:21:22

• KdeGuiTest (KdeEcoTest) in SoK25: Debugging, Building an Interactive User Interface, and More ☞ https://eco.kde.org/blog/2025-03-14_sok25-kguitest/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:22:52

• FOSS Weekly #25.13: Kernel 6.14, Zorin 17.3, EU OS, apt Guide and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-13/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:23:49

• FSF Blogs: FSD meeting recap 2025-03-21 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsd-meeting-recap-2025-03-21    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:26:45

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1015464/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:27:20

• Microsoft Canonical Pays IDG to Spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/26/Microsoft_Canonical_Pays_IDG_to_Spread_FUD_Fear_Uncertainty_Dou.shtml https://canonical.com//blog/70-of-it-teams-spend-more-than-6-hours-per-week-on-security-patching-new-idc-research    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:27:49

• HKFP Lens: Art Central’s 10th edition opens, showcasing over 500 artists at Central Harbourfront ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/27/hkfp-lens-art-centrals-10th-edition-opens-showcasing-over-500-artists-at-central-harbourfront/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:28:52

• NASA’s Webb Telescope Spots Auroras on Neptune for the First Time ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/science/neptune-aurora-nasa-webb-telescope.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:29:05

• Gaia to Shut Down After More Than a Decade of Mapping the Milky Way ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/science/gaia-milky-way-spacecraft-retires.html    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:29:14

• Latvian scientists studying cells in their natural conditions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/26.03.2025-latvian-scientists-studying-cells-in-their-natural-conditions.a593002/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:29:42

• Japan district court orders disbandment of controversial Unification Church ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/japan-district-court-orders-disbandment-of-controversial-unification-church/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:29:58

• "This project details the installation and setup of Microchip's FPGA design tools Libero SoC Design Suite 2024.2 and SoftConsole v2022.2" https://www.hackster.io/whitney-knitter/microchip-fpga-design-tools-v2024-2-install-on-ubuntu-20-04-426ff0    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:31:14

• "Ever wondered what you're missing by sticking to Windows and not trying out Linux? As a dual booter, I jump between Linux and Windows every day, and I find Linux far more feature-rich compared to Windows." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-features-i-miss-booting-into-windows-11/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:33:06

• "Bad news about the Linux system monitor may be on the way" https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/uninstall_atop_for_now/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:36:50

• You Might Get Better Performance On Your Steam Deck One Day https://www.thegamer.com/steam-deck-linux-update-performance-boost-valve/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:37:22

• "Today, the Zorin OS team announced the release and general availability of Zorin OS 17.3 as the third installment in the latest Zorin OS 17 series of this Ubuntu-based distribution targeting Windows users and Linux newcomers." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-based-zorin-os-17-3-is-now-available-targeting-windows-10-users    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:41:39

• "With ChimeraOS you can get installed and gaming in no time at all. It's easy to install, gets you right into Steam Big Picture mode with their own custom built-in web app for managing games from various sources including Steam, Epic Games, GOG and others." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/chimeraos-linux-48-brings-new-hardware-support-for-your-handhelds-and-living-room-pcs/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:42:02

• "I was handed a flyer about Nostr, a new pubsub protocol at FOSDEM. To put it simply, Nostr is the minimal protocol to for a decentralized content publishing system which a lot of the same appeals as most small internet protocols." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/03-26-nostr-my-thoughts-on-a-new-decentralized-pubsub-protocol.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:58:10

• I need to drag my mother along on another hike already gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 18:58:37

• "The user's prompt could also be considered a "product." Since individual users insert prompts, however, these can't really be said to belong to OpenAI." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-27    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 19:00:22

• Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/03/tiny-cryptic-5    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 19:07:24

• Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/jack-london-jack-johnson-and-the-fight-of-the-century    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 19:07:32

• Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cameramans-revenge    

posted Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 19:07:44

• CSG convenes night before election and discusses reproductive health care ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/student-government/csg-convenes-night-before-election-and-discusses-reproductive-health-care/    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:25:14

• U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/usaid-cuts-gavi-bird-flu.html    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:25:25

• U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries

  A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Convicted Felon administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

Research explores women’s multi-faceted perceptions regarding bladder health ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/research-explores-womens-multi-faceted-perceptions-regarding-bladder-health/    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:25:58

• USAID cuts deal heavy blow to health programs for migrants in Mexico ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250326-usaid-cuts-deal-heavy-blow-to-health-programs-for-migrants-in-mexico    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:26:17

• Search for E. coli outbreak source continues in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/26.03.2025-search-for-e-coli-outbreak-source-continues-in-latvia.a592996/    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:26:34

• Latvian health spending remains relatively low by EU standards ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/26.03.2025-latvian-health-spending-remains-relatively-low-by-eu-standards.a593065/    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:27:01

• South Korea, World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter,’ Admits to Adoption Fraud ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/asia/south-korea-adoption-fraud.html    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:27:37

• South Korea Wildfires Kill 26 and Destroy 1,000-Year-Old Temples ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/asia/south-korea-wildfires.html    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:27:54

• Deadly wildfires kill at least 24 in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/death-toll-in-south-korea-wildfires-rises-to-16    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:28:06

• ‘Unprecedented damage’: Death toll in South Korea wildfires rises to 24, including chopper pilot ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/strong-winds-fan-south-korea-wildfires-as-death-toll-climbs-to-18    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:28:25

• Deadly Seoul sinkhole raises alarm as South Korea sees 1,345 cases since 2018 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/deadly-seoul-sinkhole-raises-alarm-as-korea-sees-1345-cases-since-2018    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:28:59

• South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment verdict could be pushed to April ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-yoon-suk-yeols-impeachment-verdict-could-be-pushed-to-april    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:29:18

• South Korea’s main opposition leader Lee Jae-myung acquitted of election law violation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-main-opposition-leader-lee-jae-myung-acquitted-of-election-law-violation    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:29:29

• ‘Like the apocalypse’: South Korea wildfires tear through mountains ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/like-the-apocalypse-south-korea-wildfires-tear-through-mountains    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:29:44

• Workers save Buddha statue as South Korea's wildfires raze ancient temple ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/workers-save-buddha-statue-as-south-koreas-wildfires-raze-ancient-temple    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:29:56

• South Korea battles worst ever wildfires as death toll hits 26 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-battles-worst-ever-wildfires-as-death-toll-hits-26    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:30:07

• South Korea, world’s largest ‘baby exporter’, admits to adoption fraud ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-worlds-largest-baby-exporter-admits-to-adoption-fraud    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:30:21

• Qualcomm launches global antitrust campaign against Arm — accuses Arm of restricting access to technology ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/qualcomm-launches-global-antitrust-campaign-against-arm-accuses-arm-of-restricting-access-to-technology    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:30:42

• South Korea faces uphill battle to contain massive wildfires as death toll rises to 26 ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/world-news/south-korea-is-in-uphill-battle-to-contain-massive-wildfires-as-the-death-toll-rises-to-26/    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:31:01

• Alamak!: ‘Kaya toast’, ‘tapau’ and ‘nasi lemak’ added to Oxford English Dictionary ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/alamak-kaya-toast-tapau-and-nasi-lemak-added-to-oxford-english-dictionary    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:31:36

• China Is Courting, and Confronting, U.S. Allies Made Uneasy by Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/world/asia/trump-china-japan-korea.html    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:32:03

• China swoops in to replace Asian USAid projects axed by Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-swoops-in-to-replace-asian-usaid-projects-axed-by-trump    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:32:12

• China's glacier area shrinks by 26% over six decades ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-glacier-area-shrinks-by-26-over-six-decades    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:32:32

• DPM Heng meets China’s Vice-President Han Zheng in Beijing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dpm-heng-meets-chinas-vice-president-han-zheng-in-beijing    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:33:01

• Taiwan to channel World War Two spirit to bolster response to China's threats ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-to-channel-world-war-two-spirit-to-bolster-response-to-chinas-threats    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:33:22

• China sentences Taiwan-based publisher to three years’ jail on ‘secession’ charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-sentences-taiwan-based-publisher-to-three-years-on-secession-charges    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:33:35

• South Korea installs platform to monitor Chinese presence in disputed sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-installs-platform-to-monitor-chinese-presence-in-disputed-sea    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:33:46

• US trade chief, Chinese vice-premier express ‘candid’ concerns on trade tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-vice-premier-raises-solemn-concerns-over-tariffs-in-talks-with-us-trade-chief    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:33:57

• India-China issues expected but can be addressed without conflict, says India foreign minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-china-issues-expected-but-can-be-addressed-without-conflict-says-india-foreign-minister    

posted Friday, March 28, 2025 at 01:34:07